Mi Teleférico (La Paz-El Alto urban network)
Mi Teleférico (red urbana de La Paz-El Alto)
- Date
- 2014 · confidence high
- Place
- La Paz, Bolivia
- Credited to
- Government of Bolivia and Doppelmayr
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A network of integrated cable-car lines linking La Paz and El Alto at 3,600-4,000 m altitude, with transfers between lines and a common fare. It is the largest urban cable-transport network in the world.
The first three lines opened between May and September 2014; the network grew to ten lines and over 30 km in the following years. Medellín (2004) was the model.
What it led to
- urban cable transport as a mass system, not only a tourist one
- linking hillside districts to the centre and shortening journey times
- emulation in Andean and other cities